Definition of "Xicheng"

The city of Peking has 85 neighborhoods, each with more than 50,000 residents (Luo, 1980). The Fengsheng Neighborhood in the Xicheng District of Peking, for example, has 14,136 families and 52,978 persons.

1983, Clifton W. Pannell, Laurence J. C. Ma, China: The Geography of Development and Modernization‎, V. H. Winston & Sons, page 85

In Xixingsheng lane of the Xicheng District, more than 20 armed policemen were beaten up by mobs; some were badly injured, and the others’ whereabouts are unknown.

1989, Yi Mu, Mark V. Thompson, Crisis at Tiananmen: Reform and Reality in Modern China‎, San Francisco: China Books, page 229

Xicheng The sector immediately west of the Forbidden City, Xicheng is the site of some of the most extensive old hutong (alleyway) neighborhoods left in Beijing.

2000, J. D. Brown, Beijing (Frommer's)‎, Foster City, CA: IDG Books, page 36

In Beijing, authorities ordered all cinemas closed until November 14 in the capital's Xicheng district, which lies west of Tiananmen Square and is home to over a million people.

2021 October 30, “China cracks down over 'serious' Covid outbreak”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 30 October 2021